إبطال المعتضد مراسم النيروز

إبطال المعتضد مراسم النيروز

c. 895 CE · 282 AH

In 282 al-Mu'tadid abolished the Nawruz observances — the fire-lighting and the water-pouring on people — doing away with the Magian custom 1.

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Levant & Iraq
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880890900910 c.
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Summary

In 282 AH the caliph al-Mu'tadid abolished what had been done at Nawruz: lighting fires and pouring water over people. 2

The source's view

The source describes this as the removal of a Magian custom. The dating is by the Hijri year alone; the conversion to the Gregorian calendar is derived. 2

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المعتضد بالله

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al-Mu'tadid's unbuilt academy plan· هدم دار الندوة بمكة· منع المعتضد دكاكين الفلاسفة وقعود القصاص والمنجمين· عزم المعتضد على لعن معاوية على المنابر· زفاف قطر الندى إلى المعتضد· المعتضد بالله

Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p. 574
  2. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition), p.574
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islam.museum contributors. “إبطال المعتضد مراسم النيروز”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/nawruz-abolition-282/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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al-Mu'tadid's unbuilt academy plan

Al-Maqrizi reports that the caliph al-Mu'tadid (279-289), planning his palace at al-Shammasiyya in Baghdad, ordered an extra measure of ground: he meant to build houses, dwellings and chambers appointing in each the masters of every craft and every school of the speculative and practical sciences, assigning them ample stipends so that whoever chose a science or craft would come to its master and learn from him — an early vision of a state academy of sciences and trades that was never carried out.